To ask those of you with meat loving teens who also love veggie food for your veggie recipes and cookery books that will tempt carnivore teens

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as my repertoire( veggie lasagna, chilli, tom pasta sauce and jackets) isn’t cutting it and I’m all but near giving up.

Want to give it one last push particularly for environmental reasons but also for health.

They will eat the above( with the odd comment) everything else is pushed to one side and moaned about( jackets nearly make this list).

I’m bored of the above, love veggie food and worried about how much they like meat.

Sweet potato and chickpea curry (with loads of coconut in); tagine with chickpeas, prunes, peppers, tomatoes and maybe tofu if you fancy; shakshouka (eggs baked in a spicy tomato sauce);Thai curry with loads of veg and tofu.

My carnivorous DH will eat all of those.

Gino D'Acampo's "Veg Italia". It was bought for me as a gift and it was a while before I realised all the recipes were veggie .

Absolutely lovely stuff.

One of my favourite veggie meals is mushroom stroganoff - mushrooms are quite a good meat “substitute” IMO because of the texture.
Re books, I can also recommend HFW’s veg books. Meera Sodha’s “East” is also good (it focuses on Indian, Chinese, South-East Asian etc. - all vegetarian or vegan), and Ottolenghi’s “Simple” (which also has meat dishes but lots of lovely veggie ones too).

Another vote for Oumph! Spiced Kebab strips. They are soya and bloody lovely.

If you're adverse to Quorn, you can get great frozen soya mince.

I love making fajitas, mushroom risotto (has to have dried porcini in it), Spanish sausage casserole (Sainsbury's new chilled vegan sausages are the most realistic I've tried, they even have 'skins'!), stuffed peppers, Thai green curry with tofu, sausages with mash and beans, loaded burgers (Linda McCartney and M&S do the best) / or loaded footlong hotdogs (Waitrose Taifun hotdogs are immense), also like pies with roasted tenderstem broccoli and roast new potatoes.

Joe Wicks new veggie book is great, described as the veggie book for meat lovers

Also, I know they're processed but my DS loved the veggie hotdogs he had at his friend's house. I told the mum not to tell him they were veggie and he didn't notice

Adding some of these to my Amazon list. Thanks for all the tips and book recommendations which I will work through.

We have HFW Veg and I love it. The pinto bean chilli is the one they will eat. One likes the fried polenta and tom sauce in that. Are there any other popular recipes in there and is his follow up veg book as good?

Ironically I bought the green roast book for dsus who raved about it, didn’t realise it’s veggie so ordering it.

Saw the new Jamie Oliver Veg book, any thoughts on that?

They like some in the other Joe Wicks book so will have a look at his veggie one. Could substitute sausages for some recommended on here in his toad in the hole recipe they like.

Want to get meat down to twice a week maximum like the pp if I can to start.

One of my teens has decided he would like to eat less meat so we got some veggie burgers from Lidl. 2 for like 1.50 they were delicious! We got the Moroccan spice red pepper and apricot ones and had them in a brioche bun with tsatziki and loads of salad immense.